18 janvier

1778 -- English explorer Captain James Cook stumbles ("discovers") over the Hawaiian Islands, renames them with something really imaginative & exotic: "Sandwich Islands".

1803 -- French revolutionary & poet Sylvain Maréchal dies. Can be labeled an anarchist avant la lettre, although the Marxists also claim him. Created a Revolutionary Calendar.

1857 -- Gustave Boullard lives, Launois-sous-Vence, France.

1888 -- France: Louise Michel Condamnation à 15 jours de prison pour outrages à agents.

1911 -- Japan: The cry of “Museifu Shugi Banzai!” (Long Live Anarchy!) resounds in a Japanese court room, shouted by Kanno Suga (Kanno Sugako; 1881-1911), one 26 defendants in the “High Treason Case” (Taigyaku Jiken). This is in response to a death by hanging verdict for 24 of them The others receive prison terms of eight & 11 years. They were charged with conspiring to assassinate the God Emperor. An anarchist, Kanno is part of a plot to assassinate the Meiji Emperor. She is the first woman political prisoner to be executed in modern Japanese history.

1925 -- Libertarian anti-capitalist philosopher Gilles Deleuze lives, Paris, France.

1932 -- Spain: Libertarian Communism is proclaimed in the Catalonia mine fields of High Llobregat, in Berga, Cardona, Fijols, Sallent, & Suria. The insurrection is suppressed within the week & over 100 militants, including the anarchists Francisco Ascaso & Buenaventura Durruti, are sent to the Rio de Oro prison colony.

1937 -- England: Emma Goldman speaks on "The Spanish Revolution & the CNT-FAI" at a large meeting chaired by novelist Ethel Mannin in London.

1967 -- US: Timothy Leary speaks at UCLA.

1970 -- Accidental death of Rene Keravis, 42. In November 1952 he helped form the "Young Libertarians" within the French Anarchist Federation. Then, without disavowing his libertarian ideas, was an exemplary participant in "auberges de jeunesse".

1972 -- Australia: Anarchist author Germaine Greer launches her book The Female Eunuch. One of the world's foremost feminists. She became famous with her writing of this book, which was recently rated as the second most important book of non-fiction ever written in Australia. Catégorie:Janvier